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There is a noble group of glaciers here, some 8 or 10 of them from 3 to 15 miles long, flowing in beautiful curves from a highly complicated range of womb-shaped fountains guarded by sharp, jagged, aspiring peaks and pinnacles, and with wide canons steeply walled and cut down to the level of the sea...
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ftunivpacificdc:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:jmj-all-2403 2023-08-27T04:09:34+02:00 July-August 1879, Alaska Trip Image 24 Muir, John 1879-07-01T07:52:58Z image/jpeg https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/1404 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/2403/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/1404 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/2403/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg To view additional information on copyright and related rights of this item, such as to purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish them, click here to view the Holt-Atherton Special Collections policies . All John Muir Journals John Muir journals drawings writings travel journaling naturalist text 1879 ftunivpacificdc 2023-08-07T21:02:37Z There is a noble group of glaciers here, some 8 or 10 of them from 3 to 15 miles long, flowing in beautiful curves from a highly complicated range of womb-shaped fountains guarded by sharp, jagged, aspiring peaks and pinnacles, and with wide canons steeply walled and cut down to the level of the sea. Three of the main trunk-glaciers come down to sea-level or nearly, one certainly does. This one, fed by 8 or 10 tributaries and probably 15 miles long, shoves its snout into the head of a long sound and was resorted to for ice by ships. They could lie alongside. Another received two grand tributaries about equal in size and then flows at a low angle down through the forested valley to within one or two hundred feet of the sea level and back from the shore not more than a mile, probably not so much. The main glacier S. E. with 5 main tributary valleys lies in the Yosemite which it fills from wall to wall. { Sketch } https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/2403/thumbnail.jpg Text glacier glaciers Alaska University of the Pacific: Scholarly Commons Jagged ENVELOPE(-65.683,-65.683,-65.967,-65.967) Long Sound ENVELOPE(69.507,69.507,-49.202,-49.202) |
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There is a noble group of glaciers here, some 8 or 10 of them from 3 to 15 miles long, flowing in beautiful curves from a highly complicated range of womb-shaped fountains guarded by sharp, jagged, aspiring peaks and pinnacles, and with wide canons steeply walled and cut down to the level of the sea. Three of the main trunk-glaciers come down to sea-level or nearly, one certainly does. This one, fed by 8 or 10 tributaries and probably 15 miles long, shoves its snout into the head of a long sound and was resorted to for ice by ships. They could lie alongside. Another received two grand tributaries about equal in size and then flows at a low angle down through the forested valley to within one or two hundred feet of the sea level and back from the shore not more than a mile, probably not so much. The main glacier S. E. with 5 main tributary valleys lies in the Yosemite which it fills from wall to wall. { Sketch } https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/2403/thumbnail.jpg |
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